"financial genius" Greenspan sees Q1/2 2009 housin

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"financial genius" Greenspan sees Q1/2 2009 housin

Postby bigearth » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:32 am

er "...recovery". (dam this titchy thread title length!!!)

i wouldn't be so sure, einstein..

the uber-boomster, the "financial genius" greenspan speaks..

i think considering it was HIM that presided over the biggest boom in history should retire somewhere and STFU.


Greenspan sees 1st half 2009 U.S. housing recovery
Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:21am EDT


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. housing market will begin to recover in the first half of 2009, according to an article he wrote for Emerging Markets magazine published on Friday.

Greenspan wrote that the recent slowing in the rate of decline in U.S. home prices is the first positive note in the year-long trauma and that eventually, frozen credit markets will thaw "as frightened investors take tentative steps toward reengagement with risk."

"More conclusive signs of pending home price stability are likely to become visible in the first half of 2009," he wrote.

Once the housing market finds it footing, markets will be able to tackle the core issues of the credit crisis.

But a big question remains, he said: "How much overall deleveraging is going to be required to induce global investors to again become committed holders, at modest interest rates, of the liabilities of the world's financial intermediaries?"

Beyond that, the amount of additional bank capital required to stabilize the financial system remains in question as well.

Greenspan said one sign that the necessary level of bank capital had been reached will be when the U.S. dollar Libor/OIS spread is restored to its pre-crisis level of 15 basis points or less, down from its current level of around 300 basis points. The spread expresses the expected future three-month premium based on London interbank offered rates (Libor) over anticipated central bank rates, or Overnight Index Swap (OIS) rates -- a key measure of financial market stress.

(Editing by James Dalgleish)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... T720081010
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